Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP in Linux-Ubuntu

Apache is the most commonly used web server. It is a free open source web server. PHP is an open source server scripting language. It has a lot of advantages. MySQL is also an open source database used for small and medium data storage. It can also used for large data storage also. We can install apache, PHP and MySQL in two ways. 1. Download source code from their site and install. 2 the easiest way install it from synaptic package manager. If you use this method apt-get automatically manage all dependencies. So I explain the second method here. 1. Open the Terminal from Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal 2. Install apache2 copy paste command to terminal sudo apt-get install apache2 3. Install PHP5 sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 4....

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Five steps to recover MySQL root password

MySQL is one of the most commonly used database. Most of the small and medium websites uses MySQL as the back end. It is the most popular open source database. The full privilege user account for MySQL is "root" user. This user account was configured at the time of installation. So some people facing issues to login to MySQL database because of forgetting root password. You can recover a MySQL database server password with the following five easy steps: The commands explained here is for linux machines. First login to your system as the 'root' user. Step 1: Stop the MySQL server process. Open command prompt and type following command to stop MySQL server process. # /etc/init.d/mysql stopOutput: Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Step...

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